Creating Sustainable Design using Place-making
GUEST POST: Kate Marillat The making, building, designing of a place used to be the sole responsibility of town planners, developers and architects. Place-making changes all of that and creates […]
Category Archives: Sustainability
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Rewarding multiple companies for a common sustainability goal
It is often said that sustainability’s major challenge is to bring various stakeholders together on the same table – biologists with designers, CEO’s with the workers, NGO’s with private sector […]
Why Pavan Sukhdev thinks the mandatory 2% CSR spend is short-sighted
As a part of the ongoing series of my blogposts (read the earlier post here) on the recent legislation by the government mandating compulsory spending 2% of the company’s net profits in the […]
Don’t view 2% CSR spend as a spend – view it as a core business strategy
Do you think of the recent Companies Bill in India mandating companies of certain size to spend 2% of their net profits on CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) activities will bring higher transparency, […]
“An Exciting Brand” may be Hot but not Sustainable!
It seems that the Indian youth doesn’t find Sustainability to be either hot, exciting or desirable! Let’s see why. Yesterday, The Economic Times newspaper featured a list of 100 Most Exciting […]
Book review: Corporation 2020 by Pavan Sukhdev
Change won’t just happen as there are no easy or elegant solutions – Pavan Sukhdev Corporation 2020 is a very strong book. It is also much nuanced. It hits directly […]
Do you buy less, buy better? Find out in RE:THINKING CONSUMPTION report
Do you really think we are buying less and at the same time buying better? Which essentially means that we (as in, some of us) have reduced our consumption patterns […]
Look who’s reading your Sustainability Report
(GUEST POST: Pawan Mehra, cKinetics) As India Inc. begins to adopt Sustainability reporting, investors are likely to be combing through it and select winners from the rest.In these reports businesses […]
Can the UK cycle its economy to the sky?
GUEST POST: Kate Marillat The UK is in the middle of a cycling boom, backed by a wave of hire schemes, new cycle highways and commuter initiatives. It has been […]
Sustainable Retail:The New Industry Buzzword
GUEST POST: Roselin Dey from cKinetics & a Natural Resource Management graduate from TERI The sustainability coin has two sides: Sustainable production and sustainable consumption. Newer compliance mandates and regulations […]
Me and My Electronic Waste – Take the survey
—Survey Closed— How many pieces of unused, broken or obsolete mobiles, laptops etc. do you have stored at home? What do you do with your electronic products after they are no longer […]
How to Reinvent Capitalism via Creating Shared Value?
Nestle is very clear on what it intends to achieve – find ways and methods by which businesses can play a role in the development of the communities and countries it […]
What is Value creation and Good Corporate Governance?
A fortnight ago I attended the CII ITC’s Sustainability Summit but was unable to write on some of the key topics, like how a good corporate governance structure can create both societal as well […]
Mainstreaming the Economics of Ecosystems @ CII ITC Sustainability Summit
The evening session of Day 1 of the CII-ITC Sustainability Summit in Delhi ended with a topic that challenges the current economic system. The Economics of Ecocystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) […]
